10:35 AM EDT on Tuesday, April 12, 2005

By Associated Press

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Authorities are continuing to look for a 15-year-old North Carolina high school student who disappeared while swimming in the ocean.

The teen was about chest-deep in water with his friends when a wave swamped them on Saturday at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Police Sergeant Phillip Cain says that's when the friends lost sight of him.

The Coast Guard searched for the boy over the weekend, and police are monitoring the area he disappeared.

The student from Spring Creek High School in Seven Springs. He was part of a school group visiting the beach for a band competition.